The scheduled sale of the former Coca-Cola Bottling Co. distribution building at 1301 Virginia Ave. is expected to close this week after hitting a snag that interrupted the planned sale on May 16. It is the first property that is to be bought back from the Joplin Redevelopment Corp. by Joplin’s contracted master developer, Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, as part of the city’s tornado recovery projects.

After a full school year of work, high school students in Crowder College’s building trades program unveiled a new cabin this week — and it could be all yours. The wood-frame, rustic cabin has a full kitchen, bath and shower, breakfast bar, sleeping loft, and even a place to install a washer and dryer. It is wired and plumbed and ready for service connections.

At one point, the foul air emanating from Clear Creek near Patricia Holloway’s home was said to overwhelming. “This started last week,” she said. “People were asking: ‘What’s going on?’ It was really that bad. We figured it had something to do with the sewer plant at Monett because the water smelled like sewer water.

If you’ve been to a concert by Willie Nelson or Miley Cyrus or Jason Aldean, chances are you’ve seen them perform on a stage manufactured in Pittsburg. On Thursday, the Science Channel will take viewers behind the scenes to show how the stages are built. The television show is “How It’s Made.”

The Miami City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize Mayor Rudy Schultz to begin the steps toward a search for a successor to City Manager Jeff Bishop, who has given notice that he will be leaving by the end of 2014.

A Joplin man is facing three felony counts for allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of a moving car on Interstate 44 and causing an accident that injured three others as well as himself. Police Lt. Matt Stewart said Timothy J. Hennessy, 48, is accused of causing a two-car collision at 4:06 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 44, just west of Joplin.

A Louisiana city that put $50,000 into the production of “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde” is suing the movie company for failure to produce the movie. The city of Alexandria, where part of the movie was to be filmed, filed a lawsuit earlier this month in the 9th Judicial District Court in Alexandria against Cypress Moon Productions Inc., of Sheffield, Alabama, and its owner, Tonya Holly.

Joplin City Council members will be interviewed next week about the qualifications and characteristics they want to see in city manager candidates. Mayor Mike Seibert said Tuesday that a representative of the search firm hired by the council is setting appointments to speak with council members “to get our criteria for city manager.”

Citing the scope of the project and the need for more time to digest it, the Joplin Board of Education on Tuesday night tabled a proposal that would bring a health center to Joplin High School. The proposal would task a collaboration of Access Family Care, Freeman Health System, Ozark Center and Preferred Family Healthcare Inc. to maintain a health center at the new high school to provide a variety of health services to students.

Coal mining, a boon to Southeast Kansas, left in its wake more than 350 abandoned mine sites in Cherokee, Crawford and Bourbon counties. Using mining company reclamation money available for the past 20 years, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has teamed up with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism and begun checking off the highest priorities for cleanup — $10 million in projects to date.